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How to Be a Team Building Catalyst as Solopreneur and Dentrepreneur®?

How to Be a Team Building Catalyst as Solopreneur and Dentrepreneur®?

3/18/2016 6:36:53 AM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 120
The words “high performance” attached to something can sound cliche. Though in fairness it’s a vital image you must ingrain in your consciousness as a Solopreneur and Dentrepreneur®?.

Think of your acquired or expanding dental enterprise as a high-performance (habits are hard to break) automobile. Looks can be deceiving.

Not that curb-appeal doesn’t turn heads when it comes to such automotive craftsmanship. It does. Want to know what defines an automobile’s high-performance? It’s what’s under-the-hood.

The unseen yet very real dynamics

It’s not surprising that you could raise the hood, stare at the pristine, immaculate engine and give no thought to how it all works. Turn the key, listen to the engine purr, or better take it for a spin and your awe will increase.

It’s that dynamic you must capture when building your team-based culture. The results track with the inner workings. The two are inseparable. You must commit to mastering the inner workings of high-performance team dynamics.

The Catalytic Energy of a High-Performing Team Culture in an Expansion or Acquisition Culture

1-Role definition

Your team culture must answer the “who-does-what?” question. Getting the right “who” aligned with the right “what.” That’s the challenge.

Many promising dental enterprises have been stranded roadside by ineffectively or inefficiently aligning team roles in their culture. TWEET THIS

There’s more to it than simply calling yourself a “team.” Teams are comprised of various roles. And those roles function, not in isolation, but in strategic dependence on each other. This is the essence of your team’s synergy.

When your team members individually know their role, perform their role, and support others in their role your team will begin to experience the beginnings of high-performance.
  • Listen to team members. Training and skill level have fundamental value, no doubt. Give attention to their individual passion.
  • Affirm your team member’s passion DNA. Put right people in right roles or at least in the right locations throughout your culture.
2-Go-to leadership

Your team culture must answer the “who’s in charge” question. Leadership rises. It also raises your entire culture as it’s deployed effectively. TWEET THIS

You can’t force leadership on someone who isn’t wired or geared for it. When you do your entire culture suffers.

This includes you - the Solopreneur or Dentrepreneur®?. It’s a tough pill-to-swallow to come to the conclusion that team ineffectiveness points to you.

You may or may not be a linchpin leader.

What’s that, you ask?

A linchpin is one on whom the culture positively turns. Think of yourself or that person as the leverage point.

The culture improves or declines as a result of yours/their influence. Good (aligned) leadership creates cultural wins - bad (misaligned) leadership diminishes the culture.
  • Examine your leadership personality as a Solopreneur and Dentrepreneur®?. Fearlessly confront your “demons.” Better now than later. TWEET THIS
  • Explore leadership development consistently. If you’re not growing you’re not leading. Leaders grow and the culture grows.
  • Cultivate and raise up leaders better than yourself. You’re not a-jack-or-jane-of-all-trades. There are some tasks you are not the best at leading.
Overall your leadership is less about your “stamp of approval” and more about your ability to lead toward the end result. TWEET THIS

3-Likable connections

Your team culture must answer the “who are you?” question.

This isn’t about closeness as much as it’s about awareness. Your dentrepreneurial culture will flourish when your team members celebrate and affirm diversity.

How fun is an environment where everyone is cut from the same mold. That’s not an efficiency model that’s a recipe for killing your team culture’s energy.

Differences create intelligent outcomes. Want your team’s energy to soar?
  • Spot and support diversity on every team.
  • Allow opinion-flow. Where ideas and input are squelched your team will speak up elsewhere (in ways and places you cannot effectively coach).
  • Create a solution oriented dialogue. Where solutions are highlighted, conniving complaints will diminish.
4-Straight talk

Your team culture must answer the “what are you saying?” question.

Team energy increases according to the openness of your communication channels. The more open and responsive the better. TWEET THIS

That’s not to say be unfiltered (though not a bad idea on occasion and in proper context). It is a vote for clarifying misunderstandings and misguided talk before it festers.

Festering, diseased communication will wreck your team culture. There will be missteps, count on it.
  • Be straightforward with misalignment or misunderstanding.
  • Set a standard of honest, up-front communication.
  • Prevent misguided, misinformed talk to poison your team culture.
High-performance teams achieve beneficial outcomes. Your patients will benefit and your team members will thrive. Talk to us about your team culture and your questions about guiding yours to high-performance synergy.
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